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Friday, 25 June 2010

In praise of Irish newspapers

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Been in Belfast all week working for one of my favourite papers, the excellent Irish News. Newspapers (along with the nightlife) are still v...
Saturday, 19 June 2010

Another contender for non-story of the year

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This one, a 90-year-old woman who has discovered a straight banana, comes from the Harrogate Advertiser via colleague Nick Jenkins. Banana ...
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Creative World Cup by The Guardian

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The Guardian's excellent galleries include some good World Cup fronts including the New York Post I mentioned earlier . And if you mis...

Newspapers still big in Japan

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Interesting graphic showing the circulation of British newspapers from the Business Management website . It also shows that newspapers are c...
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Monday, 14 June 2010

Post script on Saturday's debacle

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Gloomy night on Saturday. Whatever the positive spinners might say, England didn't look good. Even forgetting the Green blunder, the def...
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Thursday, 10 June 2010

So many questions ...

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I wouldn't normally pick up on basic errors but this headline and article from the London Weekly ,  really deserve a mention. I was alwa...

The sans and the fury

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A couple of issues have the typographical world hot under its collective collar this week. The purists are particularly upset at the poor ty...
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Tuesday, 8 June 2010

The ultimate hyperlocal edition

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An amusing look at the ' Boston Globe redesign ' . Hyperlocal editions at their most extreme. Funny ... even for a dyed-in-the-wool ...
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Sands Media Services is a training and design consultancy run by Peter and Pam Sands. Peter is consultant trainer on the Daily Mail graduate programme in London, New York and Sydney. He is a former editor of The Northern Echo, non-executive director of Northcliffe Media, director at PA Training and from 2006-2011 was chairman of the judges in the Regional Press Awards. He has redesigned 90 newspapers and magazines and is in demand as a trainer, speaker and editorial consultant. Peter was presented with the Journalists' Charity Award which 'recognises an individual or body that has made an outstanding contribution to journalism and journalists’ in 2018. Pam is a former director of the Editorial Centre and Press Association Training. Our partners include Press Association Training, ffresh, the visual communications company run by Mike Brough, Alan Geere, Brian Page and other senior journalists and designers. You can contact us on: petersandssms@gmail.com Twitter@petersands55
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